Opera Crossword Puzzle

2. The lowest singing pitch or range
4. A dramatic art form with one or more acts, and a genre of classical music.
6. The term used for how soft or loud you should play/sing
8. When you play softly, you’re playing ______
12. Sophisticated word for the beginning of an opera or piece of music
13. What a conductor uses to open an opera or musical, with orchestral and vocal parts.
14. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
18. A female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
21. A repeating theme throughout a musical composition, normally with a certain person, idea, or situation.
22. When someone sings well at the end of the song you say this.
23. Singing voice below a tenor, but higher than a bass.
24. When singing, it’s the part above a baritone, but below an alto
25. When singing, it’s the part above a tenor but below soprano.

1. When you play really loud, you’re playing _____
2. The feminine version of saying bravo to a singer
3. A group of singers is a ____
5. The text of an opera
7. A long accompanied song for a solo voice.
8. How an opera singer sings to the whole audience
9. This is a genre in opera, a “realism” in the arts in the 19th century Italian opera.
10. Well thought out vocal melody, often sung by a soprano.
11. When two people are singing a song together it’s a ____
13. When a musician plays a note sharply and there’s space between the notes
15. Meaning smooth connected notes
16. A speechlike vocal style used in the conversations of a opera.
17. An introductory piece of music, mostly an opening to an act of an opera from the orchestra.
19. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
20. When singing, it’s the part above all other singing voices